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Wednesday 9 July 2014

Reading List for New Maths Teacher

I was asked recently what I thought would be a suitable reading list for a new UK Maths teacher. Below is my list. Have I missed anything out?

General Teaching:

  • "Teach Like a Champion", Doug Lemov 
  • "Mindset", Carol Dweck 
  • "Why Don’t Students Like School", Daniel T Willingham 
  • "An Ethic of Excellence", Ron Berger 
  • "The Hidden Lives of Learners", Graham Nuthall 
  • "Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn", John Hattie 
  • "100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers", Ross Morrison-McGill 
  • "Teacher’s Tookit", Paul Ginnis 
  • "Trivium 21C", Martin Robinson 
  • "Adapt", Tim Harford 
  • "The Secret of Literacy", David Didau 
  • "The Behaviour Guru", Tom Bennett 
  • "How to Teach", Phil Beadle 
  • "The Perfect (Ofsted) Lesson", Ian Gilbert 
  • "Teacher Proof", Tom Bennett 
  • "Getting the Buggers to Behave", Sue Cowley
  • "The Lazy Teacher's Handbook", Jim Smith
  • "How Children Learn", John Holt
Shaun Allison has created an excellent CPD video library


Mathematics:

  • "The Elephant in the Classroom", Jo Boaler 
  • "Alex’s Adventures in Numberland", Alex Bellos 
  • "Taming the Infinite", Ian Stewart 
  • "Murderous Maths" series by Kjartan Poskitt
  • "The Perfect Maths Lesson", Ian Loynd
  • "Adapting and Extending Secondary Mathematics Activites", Stephanie Prestage & Pat Perks 
  • Collection of Professional Development Materials for Maths Teachers by Mark McCourt at Emaths
  • Cockcroft Report 1982 
  • "Getting the Buggers to Add Up", Mike Ollerton
  • "Key Ideas in Teaching Maths - Research-based Guidelines for ages 9-19", Anne Watson, Keith Jones, Dave Pratt
  • "Nix the Tricks", Tina Cardone and MTBoS
  • "How Children Learn Mathematics", Pamela Liebeck
  • Collection of Publications by Professor Malcolm Swan
  • "Children Discover Arithmetic", Catherine Stern
  • "Understanding Mathematics for Young Children", Derek Haylock
  • "1089 and All That", David Acheson
  • Debates in Mathematics Education, edited by Dawn Leslie and Heather Mendick, for the more reflective practitioner

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